1 Fallen

Gohan watched as his father was beaten down in front of him. Beerus was a nightmare. For so many years, they thought they were the strongest beings in the universe. Unfortunately, Supreme Kai held out on them because he thought the god would stay asleep for another one hundred years before awakening from his slumber. Goku, the strongest being in the cosmos—or so they thought—was at full power Super Saiyan 3, trying to even faze Beerus.

Beerus smirked, easily sliding through Goku's defense, giving him a flick to the forehead with close to no effort. A shockwave sounded out as he was blasted out of the sky and into the ground. He quickly composed himself and charged his ki again before using Instant Transmission to zip behind Beerus. The destroyer god glanced behind him with a somewhat amused expression.

"Oh?" the cat deity said. "You know the technique of those purple beings in sector 3716. You surprise me, Son Goku, but not enough to spare your world," said Beerus as he caught Goku's fist and squeezed a little hard. Immediately, a snapping sound was heard.

"However, I do commend you. You very well may be the strongest mortal in the universe, possibly even in the other world. You managed to force me to use one percent of my power, which is a feat not many mortals can do. If you give up your life, I might spare your world," said Beerus. He could see the surprised look on the strongest Saiyan's face.

Sensing disbelief, the cat god continued. "I am not lying. You have a family, yes? Do the smart thing, or you know what happens," Beerus threatened as he stared down at Goku as an immovable object.

With nothing but the wind blowing, Beerus could hear the ants yell in protest. He could see Goku's mini clone yelling at the top of his lungs with tears in his eyes.

He clenched his fist in frustration. He fought the destroyer because he was looking for some Saiyan God, a Super Saiyan God? What a joke. This cat just wanted to kill them. He doubted they would be spared.

Looking at his eldest, Goku's jaw clenched. His son was graduating from West City College. From what he heard from Bulma, that was the hardest and the best educational center in the world, and his son was at the top. Wouldn't that make Gohan the smartest graduate in the world?

He had a bad feeling in his gut, which was terrifying because he had never had one before.

Was everything they fought to protect about to become space dust? Goku looked at Beerus as he clenched his fist and powered down, falling to his knees. If Beerus was being serious, then at least they would live.

Silence ensued after the act. Gohan looked at the scene with a heavy heart. If he jumped in, he wouldn't be able to make a difference, but he felt he had to try.

A single glance from his father stole all of his strength as he dropped to his knees. Videl looked at Gohan surprised as she hugged him from the side. "It'll be okay," she said, although her hands were shaking somewhat.

'Even Gohan's father can't beat him…' She had heard all of the stories from Gohan, the legendary Son Goku. He was strong enough to defeat a tyrant that could destroy planets with a flick of his finger, trained Gohan to the point where he could defeat Cell, and even defeated Majin Buu.

Vegeta growled and charged forward. "God or not, you will leave or die!" said Vegeta with fury in his voice as he powered up and punched as hard as he could, focusing all his energy into a single point.

Beerus grinned as Vegeta approached. "You don't even have the strength to wash your own back. Where do you get off trying to hurt me?" challenged Beerus as a heavy thundershock reverberated, damaging the part of the ship Beerus was floating above. The ocean behind Beerus split ten miles wide, and the clouds parted before dispersing.

Everyone held on as a bright light shone from the release of energy in a single point. When everything had calmed down, the boat was rocking slightly, and Vegeta was panting heavily as he dropped out of Super Saiyan. 'Cocky bastard, he definitely felt that one!' thought Vegeta.

Hercule looked around in shock at the sight, and Videl mirrored his reaction. "Incredible…"

"Not bad," a cold feeling sunk in as the voice spoke. "I'd say you might be able to wake me up with that punch. I was wrong, Son Goku. Unless you can punch like that, I'd say Vegeta is stronger," said Beerus, and the expression on Vegeta's face was priceless.

"Go sit down before I decide you don't need to live anymore," said Beerus as he flicked his finger at Vegeta, and air pressure unlike anything he ever felt before hit him in the chest and launched him onto the ship.

"If you seriously cannot find this Super Saiyan God, then I will leave and make this planet a memory," said Beerus.

"No, we never knew before, and we won't know now," said Goku.

A deep purple hue covered them all as a sphere appeared in the sky. Gohan stared at the divine power, powerless. 'Is this just how it ends for us? After everything we overcame…' he thought as he glared at the sky.

"Videl…" Gohan gained her attention as she turned and looked at him. "I'm sorry," he said as she bit her lower lip.

"You can't give up," she said weakly as she tightened her grip on him. "Can't you wish for him to be gone?" asked Videl as Gohan gave her a sad smile.

"It doesn't work like that. Shenron can't just wis—" Gohan stopped mid-sentence. "There is a way!" said Gohan as she nodded.

"Wait!" exclaimed Gohan as he floated up and spoke, looking at the Z-Fighters. "Guys! We could ask the dragon if he knows anything about the Super Saiyan God," said Gohan as Goku's expression changed. They were all out of options.

"Of course! Why didn't I think of that!" said Goku as he looked at Beerus, hoping against all odds that Beerus would give them a chance before connecting the palm of his hands and bowing. "Please, mister Lord Beerus, give us time, and we might be able to deliver the Super Saiyan God!" said Goku as Beerus let his ki dissolve and return to his body with an interested look.

"You have a way to deliver?" he asked.

"Maybe, but we need time, at least thirty minutes…" said Goku.

"Very well, you have thirty minutes," said Beerus as he looked at Bulma. "You, human, bring me food!" said Beerus as Bulma slowly nodded and looked to one of the waiters.

"Hurry up! Get the best food we have available!" said Bulma as the waiter nodded and hurried away.

Bulma quickly ran and got the Dragon Balls to quickly summon Shenron.

"Do you think this is going to work?" Krillin said out loud, although no one answered. He glanced up.

"It has to," 18 answered.

The sky darkened as a large green dragon materialized, and golden thunder rocked the sky. "I am the eternal dragon, Shenron. You have awoken me from my slumber! Speak your wish so I may return to my slumber!" Shenron's voice shook the sky.

"I can never get used to this," Videl muttered as she stared at the mythical creature.

"YOU ARE TRYING MY PATIENCE! STATE YOUR WISH SO THAT I MAY LEAVE!" Shenron said, frustrated at the silence.

"We would like to know about the existence of the Super Saiyan God," Beerus said as Shenron looked at him.

"L-lord Beerus! What a surprise…" Shenron almost squeaked out.

"Shenron, are you okay?" Goku asked. He had never seen the eternal dragon react in such a way before.

"You wish to know of the Super Saiyan God?" Shenron asked to make sure, completely ignoring Goku.

"Indeed, and make it fast. I do not like to be left waiting," Beerus said as he glared at Shenron.

"Of course, at once Lord Beerus," Shenron answered and immediately explained how to create a Saiyan God.

"Is there anything else you would like to know about your greatness?" Shenron asked.

"That is all; you may leave," Beerus answered as he turned and looked at the gang.

"You now know how to make one," said Beerus as Whis spoke.

"Lord Beerus, could I have a moment of your time? Something has come up that requires your attention," Whis said.

Beerus paused and thought. The premonition he had of the Super Saiyan God was terrifying. He defeated Beerus and killed him and took his title, something Beerus would never allow. "Do not do the ritual," said Beerus as they all nodded, and Shenron disappeared.

Once Beerus was high in the sky talking to his attendant, Gohan quickly spoke. "We should do this now! I think he has no intention of letting this Super Saiyan God actually be born. If you think about it rationally, why would a god want a challenge?" Said Gohan as Vegeta nodded.

"The brat is correct. Beerus is up to something, and I feel we won't be alive much longer if we wait for him," said Vegeta. "As much as it pains me to say this, I can't do this ritual. We only have one shot, and I used all my energy on Beerus," said Vegeta as Goku nodded, and everyone looked around. All the Saiyans immediately looked at Gohan, who felt like shrinking under all the stares.

"Me!?" Asked Gohan as everyone nodded. "You're the only Saiyan that can match Vegeta and me in a fair fight, so it's only natural… besides, Vegeta and I are exhausted. A Super Saiyan God that is at a handicap against Beerus might not make it, and we can't take that risk. Our power levels are too low to even faze Beerus, so he won't notice if we power up to the max," said Goku as he transformed and tried to keep his transformation stable even with the lack of energy. Vegeta took a couple of seconds to activate the form, and soon Trunks and Goten followed suit, and Beerus never noticed.

"I never thought I would be so weak to someone that they wouldn't even notice when I transform," said Goku as Vegeta grunted in irritation. He didn't think Beerus wouldn't notice, but he was relieved the god hadn't noticed. For a couple of seconds, nothing happened until Gohan felt something bubble within him. He could feel his body start to change as a blue light enveloped him.

Beerus was so deep in thought that he hadn't noticed until he felt a divine power surge to absurd levels. He saw Goku's son start to glow, and a look of dread passed over his face when he realized Beerus had spotted them performing the ritual.

"YOU LOWLY MORTALS DARE TO DISOBEY A GOD!" Yelled Beerus as his aura burst to life, charging towards the Saiyans. Goku was the first to respond.

"You can do this, Gohan! Defeat Beerus when you're ready," said Goku as he charged to max and charged towards Beerus, who just punched a hole through his chest and threw his body towards Vegeta, who dodged the flying corpse only to have his head slowly fall off his shoulders.

"Enough games! Your lives end today!"

Trunks and Goten fused and charged Beerus at full power. "You wish, you purple asshole!" Gotenks yelled.

Crack! A sickening crunch sounded out as Gotenks's head spun in a circle as Beerus slapped him across the face.

"NOO! GOTEN, FATHER, TRUNKS, VEGETA!" Yelled Gohan as tears streamed down his face. Beerus charged towards him, but the rest of the Z-Fighters got in his way to buy time.

Chi-Chi and Bulma were crying but furious. Bulma threw a pan, and Chi-Chi charged forward with Kaioken activated. She didn't get close as Beerus destroyed her, and she slowly vanished in purple sparkles along with Bulma.

Gohan, in tears, felt the transformation start to climax. He watched his mother disappear as she looked at her eldest son. "Gohan…you can do this…" Her last words echoed. He clenched his fist as he yelled, no, he roared, the cruise ship beneath him breaking under the pressure of the power.

"Gohan!" Videl yelled as she was jumped away and took flight, catching her father in the progress.

The light around Gohan intensified, and the sky turned golden. Beerus looked on, covering his eyes from the light, as he felt the power spike to high levels. "BEERUS!" Yelled Gohan as the blue light dimmed, and his hair had turned bright red, and his aura resembled fire, and his gi a darker red and black. Beerus felt the heat of the aura, and for the first time, he took a step back accidentally.

Beerus growled and charged at Gohan and attacked. Gohan's eyes widened as Beerus seemingly appeared in front of him. He quickly gathered his thoughts and blocked the attack, and the force of the attack forced him into the sky and through the moon, and further beyond.

Videl was stunned as she stared at the sky and saw the moon split in half at the attack before crumbling. "Unreal…"

He could feel Beerus chasing him. He quickly turned and snap vanished but instantly regretted it. He lost track of where he was and ended up high above the surface of Mars. He couldn't register he was moving until he was near Mars. He marveled at his power as a fist made contact with his face and sent him through Mars, vaporizing the red planet.

Gohan quickly corrected himself to find himself near Neptune. 'No… I have all the time in the world to figure out my limits, but I need to kill Beerus, or this will never end,' he thought as he crouched and started chanting.

His aura burst to life, acting like a supergiant for anything within a one-thousand-mile radius. Beerus floated there, unaffected, and clasped his hands. It didn't take Whis a second to appear next to him. "Lord Beerus, if you fire back, you will destroy this universe," said Whis as Beerus nodded.

"Create a barrier with him and me in it; I am sure you can contain us both," said Beerus as his purple aura burst to life. Whis nodded and vanished just as a barrier spanning around a ten-million-mile radius materialized.

"Ka…Me…Ha…Me…" Chanted Gohan as the energy around them started to become so strong that the vacuum started to buzz and heat up to unbelievable levels.

"You know, fledgling god, before creation… is destruction!" Said Beerus as a sphere of destruction appeared and glowed vibrantly. Gohan wasn't intimidated; he channeled all of his newly found god power that kept surging at a ridiculous rate into his Kamehameha Wave.

"HAAA!" Gohan yelled as he thrust his palms forward and felt the power surge out of him. Beerus grunted as he threw it forward. For a second, it was complete silence as the energy raced towards one another. But once they collided, a vibration echoed in the vacuum, vaporizing everything in its path.

The vibrations became more and more intense as they grew into a stalemate, but the vibrating started to become a visible phenomenon as they kept bouncing back on each other because of the barrier. Reality started to warp ridiculously, and the power just kept pulling it further open.

'Not good…' Thought Gohan; he could feel something was not right.

Far out in space in the DC universe, the Justice League was returning from a mission. "Do you think the Lou and Eve Empire will be able to stay at peace?" Asked Flash as Superman shook his head.

"Never, they are only working together now because of Apokolips; if Darkseid wasn't a problem, they would be at war now, one so big we might be forced to join when they start to conquer worlds in our sector," Superman answered.

"The problem isn't even the Lou Empire, it's those Eve bastards; all they have on their minds are conquest," said Green Lantern.

"I'm not too worried, if they even sneeze this way, we will send them packing; we have three Kryptonians," Flash said with a grin as Batman shook his head.

"You would think so, but from what Hal tells me, their commanding general Strix is on an entirely different level, same goes for the Lou Empire. Together, those two can hold back if not defeat Darkseid," Batman said.

"You don't think Darkseid already tried to destroy the largest empires in our neighboring galaxies? Strix fended off Darkseid by herself, and so did the Lou commander. As confident as they are, they would never risk complete annihilation, so an alliance was formed to deter Darkseid, and so far it's worked.

"That would mean that there are at least three Superman-level threats out there. As strong as Karen and Kara are, they aren't quite there yet. We would be at a large disadvantage; they wouldn't attack like Darkseid either. They would descend with thousands of intergalactic warships; we would be hard-pressed to stop that, and even if we did, the loss of life would be staggering," Batman explained as the ship went quiet.

"That got dark real fast." Green Lantern said.

"Friends, why think about what could happen? If the time ever did come, we would fight regardless, so it matters not, correct?" Asked Diana; they all nodded just as the ship started to go crazy.

A giant gaping hole ripped open right before their very eyes. "Holy smokes! What is that!?" Exclaimed Flash as Batman narrowed his eyes.

"No idea!" Said Batman as he stared at the giant aberration. "It can't be a black hole…these readings…" He stared at his monitor. "A white hole? How is that even possible?"

"White holes theoretically spit out; this shouldn't even be reachable!" Superman explained.

The hole just kept getting wider until they started to feel incredible heat coming from it. "We are too close…move the Javelin away." Said Batman as Diana nodded and turned the ship in the opposite direction.

"By the gods! What is that?" said Diana as they could start to see two beings; they seemed to be in great conflict.

Gohan was so deep in concentration he hadn't even noticed that the wormhole was open. "You won't win, Beerus. You killed my entire family, everyone I knew and loved. You are going to die by my hands; the universe has been terrorized enough," said Gohan as Beerus glared at him.

"You think I care!? I am the God of Destruction, boy! I can do as I please. You may have been reborn as a Saiyan God, but don't let delusions of grandeur start to cloud your judgment. This universe is my jurisdiction, and you and your family are the last beings capable of even dreaming of challenging me. You may be a god now, but you have no idea how to control the vast power dwelling within you!" said Beerus as he increased his power and pushed Gohan back a little.

"You are forgetting, Beerus, I am my father's son!" said Gohan as he flared his aura, increasing his power as well, pushing the struggle to a stalemate again.

The league was so caught up watching the struggle and listening to the conversation that they hadn't noticed Gohan was slowly being pushed through the dimensional tear. 'This is dangerous… I can't control any more of this power… if I dig any deeper, I don't know if I would survive the explosion…' thought Gohan.

"Beerus, if this power goes unstable, we could both die. If we add more power and it goes off, neither of us will survive this!" said Gohan as he felt himself losing control.

"Are you reaching your limit, boy!?" asked Beerus as Gohan winced; his arms started burning. "If you are, then get ready to be vaporized from all of creation, just like I did to the rest of your family!" said Beerus as Gohan frowned in anger as his family's faces flashed through his mind.

"Shouldn't we stop this?" Martian Manhunter asked as Superman was about to get up when Batman grabbed his arm.

"We can't. The energy being thrown around by those two is far more than even Clark can handle. That amount of power could nuke our entire universe, and that's just from the one. The overall energy output is tremendous; we can only try and escape before they notice us. Those are gods fighting; we have no right to interfere, nor should we," said Batman as Superman was about to protest.

"Clark! Can you confidently tell me you can withstand an attack that can destroy our universe? Keep in mind that's only half of the power being flung around." Superman clenched his fist as he stared at the fight.

"But we can't do nothing, Bruce," said Superman as Bruce grimaced.

"I am aware; if that energy does go unstable, it could leak into our reality and destroy a large portion of our galaxy," said Batman as he started typing.

"Give me a few moments; I need to think," Batman spoke.

"No, I can still feel my power rising, I just don't know if I can control it," said Gohan as he grinned at Beerus like a maniac. "But what I can do is take us both out!" said Gohan as he dug deep and unleashed everything he possibly could.

"FUUUUUUCK! YOU CRAZY SON OF A-" Beerus didn't finish as red and purple collided in a brilliant display; the energy knocked Beerus away.

Gohan noticed Beerus was still alive, but he had taken the brunt of the blast and quickly raised his power to guard himself and screamed.

"Noooo!" as he was enveloped in bright light just as he was forced back by the force and flew out into a foreign universe and through a few planets and into a nearby star. He tried to fire off another blast at Beerus to kill him, but the combined energy of the blast blocked his attack and caused the dimensional tear to shut.

He clenched his fist in anger as he flew out of the star, covered in red plasma. Beerus was still alive, and he didn't know what the heck just happened, but he couldn't sense Beerus anymore. He yelled in anger, activating his aura in a crimson blaze, and the shockwave shook the entire galaxy.

The star behind him became unstable before exploding, the feeling of heat blowing past him as his anger soared again. "Fucking irritating star!" He yelled as he aimed his palm at the star, vaporizing it.

The Justice league watched in silence at the angry deity. "Someone has anger issues, am I right?" Barry said as they all glared at him. "What!? I'm not wrong…" He muttered the last part.

"And what if he heard you? He just vaporized a star like it was nothing… we definitely can't fight something like that…" said Green Lantern as he ironed his will. "We better get out of here before he notices us…" Green Lantern said as Batman nodded.

"Whatever that is… whoever that is, we want nothing of it…" Batman said as the ship turned and was about to fly away when they suddenly saw the red-haired anger issues being floating in front of the ship, staring at them.

Surprisingly, the god seemed to take a deep breath and smiled at them. "Mind letting me in… I need help," he said as they all stared at one another not too sure about it before Batman nodded.

"Alright." He answered as Barry's jaw dropped open.

"Bats! What are you doing!" He whisper-yelled.

"How about you say no to him, Flash…" Batman said as Barry stared at Bruce before staring back at the god.

"No, I think I'm fine… just let him in…" said Barry as Batman nodded.

'The fact that he asked for permission instead of barging in gives me the idea that he isn't as unstable as he seemed a few moments ago.' Bruce thought.

The hatch opened, and soon Gohan entered the spaceship and stared at the funny-dressed individuals.

"Who are you?" asked Gohan as Batman stared at him. Superman was about to talk when Gohan's hair suddenly went from bright red to jet black, and his eyes rolled to the back of his head.

"…Wow." said Hal as they all looked at the unconscious deity.

"Well, that was anticlimactic…" said Barry as he stared at Gohan, who was face-first on the floor.